Kurumi Otake had already made it out. That makes the death of the 22-year-old employee at Aeon Mall Kumamoto so difficult to process. After a powerful earthquake struck Kumamoto Prefecture …

Forget giving your dog a treat for sitting pretty. In Nepal, dogs are treated like actual royalty for an entire day. Flower garlands, sacred forehead markings, and feasts fit for …

You Yokoyama is not done. Last year the SUPER EIGHT member launched a deliberately finite solo experiment called ROCK TO YOU — a year of training, self-interrogation, and rock songs …

Imagine stepping off a crowded Tokyo train, phone in hand, only to realize the exit tunnel never ends. The fluorescent lights hum the same way. The posters stare back a …

This is Part 3 of our three-part series exploring the transformation of Thailand’s entertainment industry. In Parts 1 and 2, we examined how digital platforms, global fandoms, artificial intelligence, and …

Imagine a man who can step inside the darkest minds on earth, who treats human monsters like puzzles, and who has spent years building walls so high that almost no …

“While Egyptian pharaohs prepared for the afterlife, a small group of Japanese monks believed they could become Buddhas before they died.” If ancient Egypt gave us the world’s most famous …

Takuya Kimura just dropped the first taste of his new chapter — and it’s got rock teeth. On July 22, the Japanese icon released “BLACK DENIM,” the lead track from …

Forget everything you think you know about clean, stylish assassin movies. The Shadow Strays doesn’t do elegant kills. It does pure, relentless, blood-soaked chaos—and somehow makes you care about the …

DIR EN GREY just dropped a bomb: they’re hitting the road with the “DIR EN GREY 30th Anniversary Rettou Gekishin Angya 2026 Nothing XXX Ugly” tour, running November through December …